「さよなら一等星」/NMM

星を見るほどにその輝きに憧れた
同じ煌めきを捜しては諦めかけた

そんなある一夜空が降ってきて
今も同じ約束のあの星が見えた

それは病院の窓から見仰ぐおほしさま
あの日とほしろし語り明かしたあの部屋で
開いた星の地図帳と夢の宝物庫
やをら空の星の宿り落つ夜に。

『暗闇を裂く星が今夜現れた
この路照らす道標が
何億もの民を
導き給ふ光が
星河一天の大空に満ちて、
幾千の營みを運ぶ蒼き星が
いのち終え受難を迎えても。』
やがて嘲われたはずのこの夢が
銀河の隅で滓をなす
そんなことを星に願う。
最後の光が地平線に消えるまで
永き長き夜に祈って
嘆いて
紡いだ
あの日の夢に想いを馳せる。

ずっとずっとずっとずっとずっとずっと前から
待ちに待ったはずの光が
何億もの星の
最たる輝きに
贄を取り化けていたなら
「私の夢はきっと別のどこかで
代々に語り継がれていくの。」
いつかあの子が呟いた言葉を
新たな喜望として

『やがて裂いた空もあの約束の星も
空高く飛んで落ちた鳥も
大いなる命の
美しき讃美歌に
名を刻み崩れ去っていく。』
ならば私のこの尊き鼓動こそ
新たな約束の光と言えよう
永遠のさよならを告げたあの星を
ちょっとだけ恋しく思ってしまうけど。

「君は星に何を願う？」

"Goodbye, Bethlehem"/NMM

Gazing up at the stars, so bright, I was enamored with their grace
Had spent years, in search for, that exact glimmer

Then one night, the sky fell, hit the earth
O say, can you see that same star which leads us to Bethlehem?

That night, when we dreamt of a new ray of light,
When we saw that twinkling little star from the nursery window,

opening the vast atlas of the stars and the treasure box, full of nightmares
Let us praise this night, our Second Coming, where the legend of the stars on land become a reality

“The sacred star which shall lead us to glory has appeared tonight
The star, which shall shine upon us for years and years to come
A streak of light which guides billions
seeking their way to the land of the promise,
has flooded the sky full of stars, for thou, who may stray.
Even if this blessed blue planet were to end up in smithereens,
were to end up obliterating all the blessings and hopes of man,”
My luminous dream of that night, shall remain untouched,
blessed, as residues elsewhere in the vast vast universe.
I happen to make such a wish upon the stars.
‘Till the last streak of light fades beneath the horizon,
I’ll pray and wish for the blessings which shall be brought about by that sacred star
which I’d longed for,
lamenting,
Thoughts turning to the dream I saw that day.

If, the light, which we had been waiting for
from long, long, long, long, long long ago,
had been shining the brightest of all the stars,
resting upon the foundation of the sacrifice of millions of our blessings?

“Once had a dream
Which shall be aspired for, elsewhere in the vast world,
and shall be passed down from generation to generation, under the name of those three Magi”
such words shall be addressed, as the first men did, as she did, as the last recall on our sacred blessings.

“Soon, the sky that had fallen, that star of the sacred promise, gleaming golden,
and the birds high up in the sky, all ironically and faithfully alike,
shall see its downfall and
join the glorious, beautiful, harmonized hymn of life”
If so, this heartbeat of mine would be, and shall be,
the new hope of a succeeding promise.
‘Till the day some man comes by to this ephemeral wish,
Goodbye, the sacred star of Bethlehem.

“What do you wish upon the stars?”